Scottish Premiership side Ross County Chair Roy MacGregor "blamed the chaos and poor behaviour" of Scottish Championship side Rangers as the reason for the lack of a major Scottish Professional Football League sponsor, according to Alasdair Fraser of the HERALD SCOTLAND. As MacGregor raised the spectre of part-time clubs playing in the Premiership within three years if the game keeps "haemorrhaging cash, he pointed the finger of blame for many of the current ills directly at the gates of Ibrox." MacGregor said, "The [increased] financial discipline of clubs has affected the brand and you can see that in the way we can't even get a sponsor. My own belief is it will still be difficult to get a sponsor as long as Rangers behave the way they have been. We're not projecting ourselves as businesses that can self-manage ourselves." MacGregor, though, believes that "the game still has the potential to re-generate, with green shoots apparent even in these dark times." MacGregor: "There are green shoots, too, when you look in certain quarters. Hearts, for me, are one club that have gone and identified where they got it wrong and then rebuilt. All the benefits of rebuilding last year have really given them momentum, especially with the younger players this year" (HERALD SCOTLAND, 2/11).
